Name: Robert De Niro
Biggest Hit: "Meet the Fockers" (financially), "Raging Bull" (critically)
Comeback Vehicle: "Silver Linings Playbook"
Will It Work: Let's be frank, De Niro has ha...
Pro: Arkin's been around the block. His first nomination came 45 years ago and in 2007 the goodwill finally came in the form of an Oscar win (for "Little Miss Sunshine"). He's a highlight in the movie for hi...
Pro: First off, "Argo" will be adored by SAG and the Academy's acting branch because of the huge cast of character actors who get a chance to shine. The movie finds Affleck playing Tony Mendez, a real-...
Pro: Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or winner keeps accumulating critical superlatives, while its moving account of love enduring the indignities of dementia should hit home with older voters – and that's most the Aca...
The cast for the upcoming sequel "Hunger Games: Catching Fire" is growing, and the latest addition is a welcomed one for Quentin Tarantino fans. Amanda Plummer has been cast in the role of Wiress.
T...
Though "Community" under Dan Harmon eventually became known for its format-breaking episodes, the show in its early days was actually very good at working within a fairly traditional sitcom framework in wh...
Young America ruled at Cannes in 1989, with the 26 year-old Steven Soderbergh deservedly taking the Palme d'Or for his slinky debut feature "sex, lies and videotape," while James Spader and Meryl Streep took...
It still seems surreal to me that there really is a mega-budget bigscreen live-action film based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs stories about Barsoom and John Carter, since as long as I've been paying attention to Hollyw...
Hollywood fame is a fickle beast, and it's the rare star who's able to keep his/her career viable for any length of time. The 22 actors and directors we've highlighted here are among those whose careers have stumbled ...
Film franchises are a tricky thing. Hollywood loves to jump on bandwagons, and every time a book series is turned into a "Harry Potter"-sized juggernaut or an old TV show becomes the basis for a megahit like...
